Presidential candidate and shrewd businessman Donald Trump is asking the FBI to investigate a Twitter threat he received from an account purportedly run by escaped Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
Mexico’s most notorious drug lord has escaped from prison again.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The DEA issued a statement Monday applauding the arrest of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera while playing down statements made by retired DEA agents like Phil Jordan. The DEA statement said: Remarks made by retired Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Phil Jordan and those of other retired DEA agents do not reflect…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Busted. It took a while, but Mexican and U.S. authorities on Saturday, as part of a joint effort, captured Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the boss of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking operations in Mexico, CNN reported. CNN reported that Mexican marines in a joint operation with the DEA…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A fugitive drug lord accused in the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarenais complaining that the U.S. is causing an “infernal nightmare” for his loved ones, McClatchy reports. Rafael Caro Quintero, who was released from on Aug. 8 prison early on procedural grounds, is appealing to Mexico’s president for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com So outraged by the early release of a 60-year-old former drug lord from a Mexican prison, U.S. and Mexican authorities are scrambling to track down the man who brutally killed an American DEA agent, Fox News reports. The U.S. has expressed outrage that a Mexican court would allow Rafael Caro Quintero to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican drug lord convicted of kidnapping, torturing and murdering a DEA agent in 1985 has been released from jail, a move that has incensed U.S. law enforcement, Slate reports. The U.S. expressed deep frustration with a three-judge court that decided to overturn Caro Quintero’s sentence on the argument that he…
